Commissioning Editor: (re)Rites of Passage
(𝒓𝒆)𝑹𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑷𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒈𝒆 is a special anthology published as part of the Toronto Reel Asian Film International Film Festival’s 25th anniversary celebrations, and a follow-up to 𝘙𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘈𝘴𝘪𝘢𝘯: 𝘈𝘴𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘥𝘢 𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 (published in 2007 for Reel Asian’s 10th anniversary).
Drawing inspiration from the vibrant and kinetic histories of independent publishing in Asian diaspora, the anthology features a range of critical responses from Asian Canadian media artists on the contributions, maturations and evolv...
Review: Monitor 14 Screening / Curated by Rasha Salti
A review of MONITOR 14: Adrift with the Summer Tides, an online screening of experimental video and film works curated by Rasha Salti.
Review: Priya Sen's Yeh Freedom Life
Priya Sen’s film captures the beating heart of an urban margin.
Program Notes | My Lovely Lunarite
A “lunarite” refers to the rocks that make up bright portions of the moon’s surface: large, luminescent craters that encroach upon darker plains. It is a critical mass of substance, overflowing, engulfing. Tangible yet out of terrestrial reach, the lunarite reminds you of your smallness; that you cannot—not typically, or with ease, at least—be flown to the moon.
So, instead of fantasizing about a lunar visit, why don’t you invite the lunarite home?
Bear in mind: this visitation will carry the...
Surveillance Romance
In their first major solo exhibition—and on the verge of a Berlinale spotlight—artist duo Bambitchell studies the aesthetics of camouflage
Crescent Notes: The Poet's Moon and the Undead
A meditation on moon-gazing and mortality
the moving copy
A parallel commissioned text for the exhibition "the moving copy" at TSV
The Diaspora That Never Happened
Searching for portraiture in the archives of the Komagata Maru
A Twist on the Lost Art of Letter Writing
Rookie magazine contributors Tova Benjamin and Kendra Yee work with personal correspondence to collaborate on a Toronto exhibition
“The art of letter-writing has only just come into existence.”—Virginia Woolf in “A Letter to a Young Poet”
“I want each letter to only be its own copy,” writer and poet Tova Benjamin remembers telling illustrator, sculptor and artist Kendra Yee a year ago, prior to preparing for their current exhibition of writing and mixed-media artifacts, “To Whom It May Concer...
In “Yonder,” Migrant Flight Speaks to Land
In “Yonder,” Migrant Flight Speaks to Land
Toronto Q&A: Konkona Sen Sharma talks Bengali drama 'A Death In ...
Toronto Q&A: Konkona Sen Sharma talks Bengali drama...